Events
Books For Now – Trans writing & literature with Jordy Rosenberg and Kai Cheng Thom
We are very excited to announce the third event in our Champaca homegrown series, Books for Now: a conversation on trans writing and literature with two extraordinary authors, Jordy Rosenberg and Kai Cheng Thom, and hosted by Kavya Murthy. Kai Cheng Thom is the author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir, and Jordy Rosenberg is the author of Confessions of the Fox. Join us on Youtube Live on June 26, 2021 7:00pm IST onwards.
Migration: In Search of Home – Conversation with Subuhi Jiwani, Priti David and Kirtana Kumar
On the 16th of April, at 6.30pm, join authors Subuhi Jiwani & Priti David in conversation with Kirtana Kumar about the theme of migration in their books for the PARI Series by Karadi Tales. Get the books — Coming Home and No Ticket, Will Travel — from Champaca, and join us for the event on Youtube Live. The PARI series, published under the Karadi Tales chapter book imprint, Minmini Reads, is done in collaboration with People’s Archive of Rural India. These chapter books use real stories of rural India, disenfranchised people and communities, and the unique challenges they overcome every...
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer – Conversation with Shrabani Basu and Vivek Shanbhag
On the 9th of April, at 6.30pm, author Shrabani Basu will be talking to Vivek Shanbhag about her new book, The Mystery Of The Parsee Lawyer. Get your copy of the book, and join us for the event on Facebook Live. In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George – quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features...
Romancing the Heart – Conversation with Dr Akshay Mehta
On Saturday, 3 April, 2021 at 6:00 pm (IST, Dr Akshay Mehta will speak to Dr Raj Brahmbhatt, Sexologist and Marriage Counsellor, about his book Romancing The Heart: Understanding, Preventing, Reversing & Healing Coronary Heart Disease. Buy the book from our online store, and watch the event live on Youtube.
The Good Girls – Conversation with Sonia Faleiro
On Monday, March 8, join us on Zoom at 7:30 pm for a conversation with Sonia Faleiro about her book The Good Girls. “Suno, listen I have something to tell you.”Please join us for a discussion with Sonia Faleiro about The Good Girls (Penguin, 2021), her latest investigative work chronicling the after life of the 2014 death of Padma and Lalli, the inseparable teenage cousins from rural Uttar Pradesh, narrating a system of decay and indifference. This is a joint session co-organised by Champaca Book Store and THUS. Get your copies of the book from Champaca. To support THUS and critical thinking please consider...